Cool! Didn't know that, and the Haskell syntax I looked up made no mention of it. Thanks, Michael --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Daniel Peebles wrote: From: Daniel Peebles Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] "--" comments To: "michael rice" Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:33 PM let (--*) = (+) in 5 --* 6===> 11 The comment is introduced by -- followed by a non-symbol (because if followed by a symbol, it might be an operator) Hope this helps! Dan On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, michael rice wrote: I'm just noticing that "--" comments don't seem to work properly when the first character following them is a '*'. Michael --*I like asterisks --*I like asterisks --*I like asterisks --*I like asterisks double x = x+x Prelude> :l double [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( double.hs, interpreted ) double.hs:1:0: parse error on input `--*' Failed, modules loaded: none. Prelude> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

I'd seen Haddock occasionally mentioned in posts but hadn't gotten to it yet. Looks interesting. Thanks, Michael --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] "--" comments To: "michael rice" Cc: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" , haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:34 PM On Dec 11, 2009, at 23:30 , michael rice wrote:I'm just noticing that "--" comments don't seem to work properly when the first character following them is a '*'. I believe the spec only treats "-- " as a comment leader; this is why Haddock markup has a space between the "--" and the markup. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.comsystem administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.eduelectrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH